KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian port city of Odesa came under renewed Russian missile attack early Sunday, just hours before President Vladimir Putin was due to hold a summit with his staunch Belarus ally Alexander Lukashenko. At the meeting in Saint Petersburg, the pair plan to discuss the...
TOKYO, Japan -- Three people were hurt in a knife attack on a train in western Japan on Sunday, with police saying they had arrested a man for allegedly carrying out the stabbings. The victims -- a train conductor in his 20s and two male passengers aged in their 20s and 70s -- were taken to...
Protesters against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul enter Jerusalem during a march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on July 22, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Junqing) JERUSALEM -- Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated across the country on Saturday evening against the government's plan to overhaul...
ATHENS, Greece -- Around 30,000 people were moved to safety on the Greek island of Rhodes where a wildfire burned on Saturday, while people in the southern United States struggled under a record-breaking heatwave. Tens of millions of people have been suffering through intense heat this summer and...
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to cast his vote at a polling station in Kandal province on July 23, 2023 during the general elections. (Photo by TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia's ruling party declared on Sunday that it was on course for a "landslide" victory in...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A notorious Indonesian animal market has ended the sale of dog and cat meat after years of activist pressure to stop the trade and its brutal methods of slaughter, according to campaigners. Canine and feline meat were on the menu alongside bats, rats, snakes and monkeys at...
PARIS, France - French President Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic advisor said China was delivering items to Russia that could be used as military equipment that in turn could be used in its war in Ukraine. "There are indications that they are doing things we would prefer them not to do," said Emmanuel...
ATHENS, Greece - Greece was Saturday facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures forecast to soar above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), while a record-breaking heatwave stretching across the southern United States was expected to expand in the coming days. Tens of millions of...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea Saturday blew up an ammunition depot, sparking evacuations on the Moscow-annexed peninsula and halting rail traffic, just five days after drones damaged Russia's symbolic bridge across the Kerch Strait. Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, has...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Russian war correspondent working for the state RIA Novosti news agency, Rostislav Zhuravlev, was killed in a Ukrainian strike in the southern Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, the military announced. The agency also reported his death, saying he was killed near the frontline...
WASHINGTON, United States -- July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years," top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt said Thursday. This month has already seen daily records shattered according to tools run by the European Union and the University of...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- Britain's ruling Conservative Party on Friday held the former seat of ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a surprise result driven by anger at the expansion of a tax on polluting vehicles. Current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was braced for a triple blow after voters went to...
